| | 21/July/20
| | Appeals court upholds groundskeeper’s Roundup cancer trial win over Monsanto In yet another court loss for Monsanto owner Bayer, an appeals court rejected the company’s effort to overturn the trial victory notched by a California school groundskeeper who alleged exposure to Monsanto’s glyphosate herbicides caused him to develop cancer, though the court did say damages should be cut to $20.5 million. The Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District of California said that Monsanto’s arguments were unpersuasive and Dewayne “Lee” Johnson was entitled to collect $10.25 million in compensatory damages and another $10.25 million in punitive damages. That is down from a total of $78 million the trial judge allowed. US Right to Know Juror in Johnson v Monsanto trial comments on Court of Appeal verdict Robert Howard, a juror in the Johnson v Monsanto trial (see above), asks whether the new ruling is a cause for celebration. Glyphosate Girl blog Investigation into Bayer's directors for possible securities fraud over Roundup cancer cases Two top international law firms are investigating claims on behalf of Bayer investors concerning whether or not certain of the German company’s officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices, related to the Monsanto takeover and following high profile Roundup weedkiller cancer cases. The legal announcement on Monday from Pomerantz LLP called on investors to join a class action case that will investigate Bayer’s officers and/or directors. Sustainable Pulse Dicamba fight continues BASF and Corteva Agriscience continue the fight to preserve postemergent dicamba use. The two companies are contesting the results of a June 3 decision by three judges on the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which vacated the registrations of their dicamba herbicides, Engenia and FeXapan, as well as Bayer's XtendiMax herbicide. DTN Progressive Farmer Experiments using GM fungus to kill mosquitoes fail to meet biosafety requirements A three-year experiment took place in Burkina Faso to test the use of a GM fungus to kill mosquitoes. Although the experiment took place from 2015 to 2017, media announcements were only made in May 2019, after the study was published in a US scientific journal. The GM fungus was developed by introducing a toxin from the lethal Australian Blue Mountains funnel-web spider into the M. pingshaense fungus to ostensibly increase the efficiency of the fungus to kill mosquitoes and stave off malaria. The researchers have declared the technology as “close to field ready”, but the project raises serious legal, biosafety, ethical, political and human rights concerns and questions regarding the conduct of the experiments. Third World Network Biosafety Information Service DONATE TO GMWATCH __________________________________________________________ Website: http://www.gmwatch.org
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